Illuminated indicator.



No. 756,860. PATBNTED APB.12,'1904. E. KAYB.

ILLUMINATED INDICATOR.

APPLICATION rum) JULY 14. 1003.

no MODEL. I

UNTTED STATES Patented. April 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ILLUMINATED INDICATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,860, dated April 12, 1904. Application filed July 14, 1903. Serial N0- 165,479. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, EDWARD KAYE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Monaca, in the county of Beaver and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Illuminated Indicators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to illuminated indicators or directing devices, and has for its object the provision of a novel device for the purpose of pointing out or indicating position or direction to be used at night in indicating the position or direction to an oflice, apartment, doorway, &c.

The device embodying my invention is of opal glass and is intended to be illuminated by an incandescent electric lamp, over which the device fits as a globe or shade The device is in the form of two human hands brought together, with the index-fingers extended and touching at the points and the others bent, as in the natural position of a hand pointing at or toward an object.

Heretofore illuminated or translucent handshaped pointers have always been of the shape of a single hand. These are difficult to make and, owing to the contour of the article, are necessarily made and finish ed by hand, as they cannot be made in a mold. When made, however, they are only capable of being clearly seen from one side. Hence it is necessary to use two separate hands to indicate direction or position of an object toward which the hand points to those approaching from both sides. WVith the double hand-shaped device constituting my invention the appearance and clearness of indication is the same from whichever side viewed, and hence the device, which can be readily made in a mold, answers the purpose of two separate pointers and two separate lights and is much more convenient and economical.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of the device looking at the back of one of the hands. Fig. 2 is a top View; Fig. 8, a lower side view, and Fig. 4 asectionalview.

The device, which is preferably made of opal glass, is, as seen, a shell composed of two hands, with the index-fingers a to extended and their points touching or approximating, while the other fingers are bent in a natural way and the thumbs straight. This shell is blown in a mold and is formed with an opening 6 at the wrist portion for the insertion of a light-bulb and a flared edge or flange 0 for the attachment of thelight-fixture. The position of the shell will be when in use usually horizontal, and the hands will present the same appearance and distinetness from whichever side viewed, the index-fingers pointing both in the same direction. The wrist may be ornamentally finished by a sleeve or cufi' cl, formed as part of the shell.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a pointer or indicator, consisting of a translucent glass shell, adapted to receive a lamp or lighting medium, and formed in the shape of two hands, respectively right and left, with the indexfingers extended and approximating at the points, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD KAYE.

Witnesses:

N. WURZEL, J r. TI-IOS. A. CoNNoLLY. 

